The Shawnee pride themselves in having respect for one another, and obviously some of you were never taught that, because of the email's I have been receiving as of late, stating that my Great Grandfather William Priestly Self b: 1728 was a trader for marrying an Indian Woman is shameless.

Most Shawnee's especially the famous one's never would have given up their right to freedom, by being sent to OK. which they considered a white man's prison. Also if you have studied history of the Shawnee, you would know that the Shawnee were hated by whites for refusing to let the Whites take their land and tried to unite the Native Tribes against them. The Shawnee were hunted down many years after the Removal, thus no one being related to the Cornstalk and Tecumseh families would have ever admitted to being Shawnee. There are families like mine who have whispered their heritage to only a few of their children.

Chef Don "Spirit Wolf" Greene is the only Shawnee Genealogist who has traced the Shawnee back to the roots of the Powhatan Nation, and has been doing genealogy for about 40 years. In his book: Shawnee Heritage II, page 54.